But before then, we've got eurozone retail sales — which were
worse than expected. Sales declined by 0.1% from September, the
second unexpected dip in a row.

Analysts were expecting an increase of 0.2% month-on-month, and
for sales to be up by 2.7% year-on-year. The year-on-year figure
actually came in at 2.5%.

You can see the general improvement in retail sales since the
eurozone exited its recession in mid-2013 on this chart from
Eurostat — but you can also see a bit of a dip over the last few
months. It's not yet clear whether that's going to be a sustained
dip, or just a brief wobble: